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Popoluca (Popoloca)
Popoluca is a Mixe-Zoquean language of Mexico,
spoken by more than 30,000 people in the state of Veracruz. Actually there are four Popoluca languages, which are not
mutually intelligible: Sierra (Serrano) and Texistepec Popoluca are more closely related to Zoque, and Oluta and Sayula
Popoluca are more closely related to Mixe. Texistepec and Oluta are seriously endangered languages with primarily
elderly speakers remaining, but Sayula and Sierra Populuca are still being learned by children in Veracruz today.
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Oluta Popoluca
Sayula Popoluca
Sierra Popoluca
Texistepec Popoluca
Our lists of vocabulary words in Popoluca languages, with comparison to words in other Mixe-Zoque languages.
Popoluca de Sayula
Vocabulary and grammatical notes on Sayula Popoluca. Page in Spanish.
Popoluca Oluta Orthography
Popoluca Sayula Orthography
Popoluca Oluta Phonology
Popoluca Sayula Grammar
Popoluca Oluta Grammar
Popoluca Indian Map:
Scanned-in Popoluca language materials from the Rosetta Project.
Popoluca Placenames
Chart of indigenous Popoluca and Zoque place names in Mexico.
Highland Popoluca
Sayula Popoluca
Texistepec Popoluca
Oluta Popoluca
Demographic information about the Popoluca languages from the Ethnologue of Languages.
Soteapaneko Language Tree
Teksistepekenyo Language Tree
Sayulteco Language Tree
Oluteko Language Tree:
Theories about Popoluca's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.
Sierra Popoluca Language Structures
Sayultec Language Structures
Olutec Language Structures:
Popoluca linguistic profiles and academic bibliographies.
The Popolucas
Article about Popoluca culture and history.
Sayula Popoluca Texts
Book of Popoluca traditional stories for sale online, in Popoluca with English translation. (Amazon affiliate link)
Additional Resources, Links, and References
Lengua Oluteko
Lengua Sayulteko
Popoluca Serrano
Popoluca de Texistepec
Articles on the Popoluca languages in Spanish.

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